Closet-seat.



J. G. ELLIS.

CLOSET SEAT.

APPLIOATIONIILED .nnmv, 1910.

Patented July 18, 1911.

I Js 6,2? 77/ QLJZZL'S JOSEPH G. ELLIS, OF DENISON, TEXAS.

CLOSET-SEAT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 18, 1911.

Application filed June 7, 1910. Serial No. 565,428.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrrr G. ELLIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Denison, in the county of Grayson and State of Texas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Closet-Seats, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to closet seats and has for an object the provision of a seat which is designated particularly for the treatment and aid in cure of prolapsus of the anus and other rectal diseases and for supporting the rim of the rectum and the sphincter muscles during defecation to pre vent the parts from prolapsing and from other injurious distending effects of straining at stool, the seat being formed to provide a series of openings of different sizes for the passage of the urine and the fecal matter and arranged and located with respect to each other to form an annular support from which the desired upward pressure against the rim of the rectum and sphincter muscles will be effectively obtained.

In the drawings, forming a part of the specification: Figure 1 1s a detail perspective view of the seat. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing a slightly modified form thereof.

Essentially the invent-ion consists in employing a seat member 1 which may be rectangular, as shown, or of any configuration that may be found most suitable for the occasion. This member is of a portable type preferably so that it may be used in connection with any well known form of commode, or suitable vessel, or if desired, it may be used as a permanent part of any well known form of closet bowl or like fixture. An opening 2 is formed in the member 1 near the front thereof and directly to the rear of such opening, the member is formed to provide a much smaller opening 3, whose walls will fit close around the anus to support or hold such parts up during defecation and to exert such pressure against the rim of the rectum and the sphincter muscles that will prevent the parts from prolapsing and other the device described and shown herein, will v aiford great relief and materially aid in the treatment of said diseases; and if used by those not afflicted with rectal diseases such as prolapsus yet having a weakness, which might result in prolapsus, or like diseases, it may have a tendency to prevent such rectal diseases.

In the form of my invention shown in Fig. 2, the member 1 is formed to provide the openings 2 and 3 which are substantially the same as those described in the preferred form of my invention, the difierence being in the provision of a small annular ring of rubber or like material which surrounds the small opening to give additional pressure and support.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

1. A closet seat comprising a fiat member having a front opening to permit the passage of urine and a rear opening to permit the passage of feces, said rear opening being adapted to fit around the rectum to embrace the same, and a support separating the openings from each other and adapted to exert an upward pressure against the rim of the rectum.

2. A closet seat including a fiat member having an opening therein of a size to permit that part of the seat immediately around the opening to embrace the rim of the rectum and to exert an upward pressure thereagainst, the said member having a second opening therein occupying the same general plane with the first opening and being out of communication with said opening.

3. A closet seat having a large front tum and to eXert an upward pressure thereopening to permit the passage of urine and against.

a small rear opening to permit the passage In testimony whereof I afiix my signature of feces, the said openlngs being out of com- 1n presence of two wltnesses.

5 munication With each other and arranged JOSEPH G. ELLIS.

in the same general plane, the part of the Witnesses: seat immediately surrounding the small rear H. L. PINER, opening being adapted to embrace the ree- E. L. SEAY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Iatents, Washington, D. C. 

